help with color and D30 parameter setting

[seanspeng]

Thanks to everyone to make this forum a great knowledge base for D30. I read most of the posts on D30 and found it very helpful, but still have some questions.

I am not a professional user of D30, so I did not play with the "raw" model very often and did not go through much of the "work flow" as suggested in this forum.

1. While I got excellent results from D30 with large fine mode, the prints I got from www.ofoto.com have some problem on the color on people's face: it looked a little bit COLD GREY. I called ofoto rep once, and he was not very sure about the cause of the problem, but suggested it might be the problem with White Balance. But I don't know how to correct it.

2. I found that the pictures look better after I increase the contrast in photo shop. The standard pictures look dull and I do not want to spend lots of time post-processing. So I created new set of parameter in the camera with "HIGH" contrast and keep the other two normal.

I notice that someone suggested "low" sharpness, "low" contrast, and "HIGH" saturation. I would like to get more of your insights on this topic. I was planning to try the setting of: "HIGH" contrast, "normal" sharpness, and "HIGH" saturation.

Thanks for educating me on these topics!

[JCDoss]

Nobody's comments are going to help you I'm afraid, except this one...

Take some practice shots in RAW mode. You don't have to become a permanent RAW shooter... but just go and shoot about a dozen or so shots that you'd typically shoot for your purposes. Then, bring them onto your computer and convert them in all sorts of combinations of sharpness, contrast, saturation, and white balance. Pick the three you like best and program them into your D30... then you're all set!

Nobody can tell you what you're going to like... and it's so easy to experiment and find out for yourself(although the conversions are somewhat time consuming).

JCDoss